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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Choose: Intel Xeon 5500 or Open Cloud Manifesto
Sounds like a strange question indeed. Do we really want to compare between Apples from Venus and Oranges from Mars? Should we care about Intel’s launch of its ‘Nehalem’ processor for servers – the Xeon 5500 – or should we be much more interested in the recent publication of the Open Cloud Manifesto? When I probed this dilemma on Twitter and Yammer (a very effective way to do a quick poll), most people would tend …
Yammer: Social Networking, Micro Blogging, or just a better way to work?
Let me first start by describing my problem: I don’t need more communications, or even more formats. What I need is focus. As a part operational and part knowledge worker, I want to know the issues and questions that matter operationally, and the information updates on the topics that matter. That’s why after only a week or two, I think I am getting converted to Yammer, and its messages known as ‘Yams’. I need to …
OpEx Wins; CapEx Loses at CeBit fair in Germany
The annual CeBit fair has always been the BIG one to kick off the European season of events with 27 halls totalling nearly 500,000 square meters of exhibitors – all aspects of technology in the German market are on display. I am not sure what the attendance numbers will be, but most of it looked reasonably busy, and my unscientific sampling method suggested that attendees were there in the IT halls because they believed they …
Controlled Uncontrollability
Simon Caulkin wrote in the UK Observer recently that ‘inside every chief exec, there’s a Soviet planner.’ Talking about the credit crunch, Simon writes ‘…with exquisite irony, while central planning had been largely discredited at macroeconomic level, at microeconomic level it remains alive and kicking in organisations…veteran systems thinker Russ Ackoff is not alone in noting that while at the macro level the west is vehemently committed to a market economy, at the micro level …
Microsoft and Virtualisation as the stepping stone for Clouds
I had the pleasure of not just visiting Microsoft last week, but also getting approximately an hour of one-on-one conversation with Ray Ozzie, who I personally regard as one of, if not the most, significant founding fathers of Collaborative working. It’s Ray who in the heyday of Lotus, before acquisition by IBM, came up with Notes, at the time a complete revolution in thinking and capability. He followed that with Groove, which was acquired by …
Stop the Drooling: this crisis needs technology
Guess we all agree by now: there is no point talking about an economic downturn anymore. It’s a straightforward crisis. Period. And it is an unprecedented crisis too, which is almost impossible to compare with earlier situations. There is obviously very, very little use in referring back to the great depression of the ‘30s. But even if we look much closer to home – the collapse of the Internet bubble happened just a few years …
Are Wireless Devices out of bounds to IT?
I got quite a few surprising reactions to the post ‘Good news; making new revenues and profits from technology’. To some people I was cheating as they stated that the devices had nothing to do with IT (which funnily enough is also the same reaction I get when I cover the topic of Smart Phones, which many people also say have nothing to do with IT). Others get the point and recognise that all of …
The win-win-win of letting go of communication?
One of the most active debates at the moment is centered around what practical steps the CIO should take to provide the business with the essential access to the world of mass-communication which surrounds it today, while assuring cost, security and compliance of the company’s information systems. And all in the context of the downturn where budgets are being slashed. It turns out that there is a possible real ‘win-win-win’, which my colleague, John Schlesinger, …
Choose: your PC or your Blackberry!
The Mobile World Congress just held its annual event to allow the mobility industry (cell phones, services, providers, etc.) to update the world on the latest developments in an industry that pretty well affects all of us as Smart Phone users. At least that’s what I thought, but then I got an interesting comment from a highly experienced colleague in IT support, who questioned why, in a Blog about IT, I would include such a …
